Böcker utgivna av The Emma Press

Leanne Radojkovich's writing is full of crisp, precise details, and often contains a sting. In Hailman, the follow-up to her 2017 debut First fox, the stories still have a dreamy, mythic feel, but are now rooted more firmly in the dusty suburbs and countryside of Aotearoa.In the title story, a child builds a snowman out of ice with her mum's friend Joyce and skirts round the edge of some adult truths. In 'Growing', a daughter visits her mother in the nursing home and tries to bond with her over flower seeds. In 'Double Dose', Patsy makes a Covid-y journey back to her hometown and touches on unpleasant memories of the past.All the rest home doors have name tags. Mum's has a typo: Irina. Although Irena isn't her born name - only she knows what that is, and she's never told, never discussed the war. Says she was born the day she reached Wellington harbour with papers stating she was a ten-year-old Polish orphan. Dad said not to ask about the European years, and my brother and I never did. Now they've both died and there's just me and Mum, and she's in a rest home with a mis-spelled name on her door.

An anthology of ten short stories about the night-time, by various authors.

The sequel to 'The Adventures of Na Willa'. Charming stories of a little girl growing up in Indonesia in the 1960s.

Part of the second batch of Bicki-Books, a collectible series of postcard-sized picture books which each features a classic Latvian poem. Suitable for children aged 3+.

Part of the second batch of Bicki-Books, a collectible series of postcard-sized picture books which each features a classic Latvian poem. Suitable for children aged 3+.

Part of the second batch of Bicki-Books, a collectible series of postcard-sized picture books which each features a classic Latvian poem. Suitable for children aged 3+.

Part of the second batch of Bicki-Books, a collectible series of postcard-sized picture books which each features a classic Latvian poem. Suitable for children aged 3+.

Part of the second batch of Bicki-Books, a collectible series of postcard-sized picture books which each features a classic Latvian poem. Suitable for children aged 3+.

Part of the second batch of Bicki-Books, a collectible series of postcard-sized picture books which each features a classic Latvian poem. Suitable for children aged 3+.

Short stories, translated from Indonesian.

Falling Out Of The Sky is a treasury of poems which retell classic myths, legends and fairytales from across the world. Hansel and Gretel's witch takes us behind the scenes of the construction of her gingerbread cottage, and Medusa explains how the snakes on her head rule out a lot of options in everyday life - wearing a hat, for example. Full of alternate viewpoints and spirited new versions of old stories, Falling Out The Sky is a friendly introduction to poetry as well as the joy of literature. In tales about the beginning of time to the end of the world, poets and characters speak directly to the readers, reveling in the possibilities of storytelling. These are poems which parents can read aloud to younger children, and which older children can read to themselves, delighting in the mischief and invention of the poets.

The Emma Press Anthology of Contemporary Gothic Verse is haunting, romantic, and full of dark doorways and strange spaces which readers will get thoroughly lost in. It's a hand in a velvet glove, ready to grasp you by the elbow and lead you through an array of ravishing and heart-racing encounters. This anthology engages deeply and playfully with the rich and unsettling tradition of gothic literature from which these poems emerge, and updates it for a 21st century readership. The featured poets twist traditional stories, set the rule books on fire, and know that to truly surprise and unnerve, you may have to traverse some wild, remote places...

Open this book carefully: as soon as you do, the wind will sweep you up across the city. You'll roam down empty streets, take a ride on the Metro and see magical things - but there's always time to stop and look about the world around you: the night, the rain, and the sea. These poems focus on everyday, small things - and breathe new life into everything that children see around them. A plastic bag dreams of becoming a cloud, raindrops go on holiday to the sea, and hats fill up with thoughts. The book builds an immersive, tender world - and through its gentle sense of humour and striking images it teaches children to look closely at everything they come across.. Suitable for children aged 6+.

From knee-grazes to auto-immune diseases, life-threatening hospital stays to 'a good excuse to miss work' sniffles, this anthology seeks to talk about what we really wish people knew about being ill, and about caring for somebody who is.

Super Guppy is a collection of fifty-one wonderful, multifaceted poems for children of six years and up. Van de Vendel stays close to home: splashing through puddles and getting your socks wet, being tucked in at night by Mum, and having a plaster on your knee - ow! - taken off.

One day her friends Ana and Ilo ask her to join them on an adventure outside during a downpour. Kira discovers the joy of all the things that happen outside when it rains - from the new friends she makes, to the umbrellas on the streets, to the thrill of lightning, and finally, the warmth found at the end of each rainfall.